I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Design is an unknown.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Some roles have been with me forever

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.