It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.

I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.