I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.

- Iris Smyles

There's something that comes from mistakes. Maybe adventures involve treasure or something. I think the wrong turns are more important than the right…

- Iris Smyles

It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.

- Iris Smyles

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

- Iris Smyles

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that…

- Iris Smyles

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dream…

- Iris Smyles

As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have …

- Iris Smyles