I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

If you say a word often enough it becomes you.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

I am very happy and excited to re-sign with the Yankees.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

I like to quote things.