When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times