So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

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.

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

I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.

This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.