So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

Great obstacles are no match for a great God.

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

I never got a lot done using a broomstick. You've got to have something that's lethal.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.

Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.

People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.