Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

I didn't understand anything about fashion until I moved to Canada when I was 9. That's when I learned English and was exposed to fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

To make life beautiful--every time you think--think about the amazing beauty of life.

The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.

Always do your best because a pat on the back is real close to a kick in the pants.

For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.