Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't

Art never comes from happiness.

She scooted up tighter and kissed him, hearing the stomp and rhythm of lust pulse in her blood. A rhythm as primitive as time.

There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation.

The question why did you retire is a much nicer one than why don't you retire