I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

There is a secret hippie within me.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

The rejection of knowledge (ignorance) attracts a reaction from God.

How cinematic of an entrance that was.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.