For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

There is no better designer than nature

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

THE ONLY THING THAT CAUSES DEATH, IS LIFE

Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?""By feeling things - too much, I suppose, " Therese answered conscientiously.

I love writing different things.

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

Be transparent about company values and adhere to them as your company grows.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary.