Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.

The curvy woman likes to show skin in the right ways - and she should!

Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.

I'm quite connected to Italy because of Italian Vogue shoots and the Pirelli calendar, so I have a love and appreciation for the culture.

What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully understand - the inward world of another person.

People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!

As a Korean War Veteran I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.

I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

I write what I write.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.