At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.

Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.

Yves Saint Laurent hated fashion. He loved style.

There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.

I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.

Loving dogs is a question of anthropomorphism. We become attached to dogs because of the feelings we project on them.

There was so much testosterone in the air, I felt like I needed a gas mask.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

You [Hillary Clinton] are going to approve one of the biggest tax cuts in history.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.

The language that reveals also obscures.