I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

If you look good, we look good.

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.