Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

I'm not interested in pop art.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Familiarity breeds contentment.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.