There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

I am not bothered about fashion's speed-up. I find it quite exciting!

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.

But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.