There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

Chic is a combination of style and fashion.

I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.

One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.

Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.

If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher, And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.