I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

I loved you with different words than you knew and that seemed to scare you.

One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during.

Russian women are very friendly with makeup, almost too friendly sometimes.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.