If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

Every five years, I decide to learn something new.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

I never thought the brightest smile would come from a mouth without teeth.

He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed

~ Tolerance increases hope between people and their voice of conscience.

Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch of crap you don't need.

Do what you dream of doing and never lose sight of that

I care a lot about what my girlfriend thinks, and my friends, but ultimately it's me in the mirror. I just want to be proud of what I do.

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.