Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping."

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.

For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.