In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you can do, I think I'm more central than some people in Paris.

There are boys and girls, there is night and day, but above all there is love.

Our role is to dream and inspire rather than collude in impacting the reality.

Enjoy your life, fashion is not that important.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

Marriage is a partnership, not a corporate venture.

If you can't explain it better leave it... (Dexter Season 2....)

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

I will get my respect or I will die.

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.