I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Other girls play with soft toys, ” I said, “and you play with knives…

The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.

Finally, ” Lilith said, smiling warmly at her. “A reasonable angel.”“I’m no angel, ” Eleanore quietly insisted.“Yes, you are, ” said every man in the room.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!