Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.

Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

It's the gravity of love that makes you fall, and it's the same force that builds you up.

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.