My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

To be well dressed is a little like being in love

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

I pushed my over-taxed muscles even harder. I could already hear the sound of the heavy wheels that moved the doors into place. And I knew I was not going to make it . . .

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career

When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

The big rumor going around is, we may begin bombing Iraq. Or, as the White House calls it, Operation Keep Enron Off The Front Page.

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

...So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.