When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

To talk of food is to talk of mothers, at least for me.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Money can be detrimental for kids.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn't have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

My father was rich and renowned, and later - as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with him for a few years - I saw another, more glamorous world.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I know that organic farms can be industrial and just as large and impersonal as conventional farms. Sometimes the free-range chickens aren't even allowed outside, and so they cluck-walk packed tight in a dim lit barn. But organic farms use fewer chemicals.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I tried to find a social niche at Harvard - a group, my group - but I was unsuccessful.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Sometimes it's nice of someone to tell you what you smell like.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs