"Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core."

“Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.”

“Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.”

“The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

“Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".”

“I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.”

“Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.”

“I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.”

Source : "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

“Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.”