The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

We all look for lost time.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.