Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

More is more and less is a bore.

You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

I was never hurt by what anybody said about my clothes, because I dress to please myself. If somebody doesn’t like what I’m wearing, it’s their problem, not mine

You only have one trip. You might as well enjoy it.

You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

If your life itself is not a message then no matter what you preach, your preaching will become a hypocrisy.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Gold is found in the deep rough soil, so go for gold

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.