There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.