My biggest icon is Liz Taylor because I don’t think she had great taste but I loved her energy.

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.

I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag.

It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope.

Nothing Happens for the First Time

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

I wore that same outfit that the male model over there is wearing. It's inclusive, it feels good and that's what I wanted. I want people to feel good.