The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.

The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.

The charming shall inherit the Earth.

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible.

All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.

Architects are the new comedians.

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game.

My job is to make people happy. And the people that I make happy, make me happy.

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.