I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.