I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

My name is more important than myself.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Sorry, Sister. You're not “normal.” You're exceptional. You're a Bombshell. If this was easy, everyone would be a successful business owner.

What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.

It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.