The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.

I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head.

I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous.

My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.

Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists. Even then I was always really interested in how the women looked in the images.

When I was a little boy, I was fascinated with how women looked and carried themselves.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

Woolsey bites on occasion

I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

Theres nothing like being hugged or held or just anything as simple as that.

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.