My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

If you look good, we look good.

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.