The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

This is my classic story:I am unpredictable, like the rest of us.

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.

You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.