A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Design is an unknown.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.