To be well dressed is a little like being in love

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.