In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

Where do you go when you die twice-lest a thousand deaths?

YOU CANT CHANGE THE PAST, BUT YOU CAN RUIN YOUR PERFECTLY PRESENT LIFE BY WORRYING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.