I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.