Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.

I am not bothered about fashion's speed-up. I find it quite exciting!

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

I'm a hopeless romantic.

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

The time to make up your mind about people is never.

You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

You have to make doubt and devils obey you. Don't ever treat the devil nice. Treat him mean and tell him what to do.

The writers could always do an about-face and change everything

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.