Work for money, design for love.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

Perhaps her requirements were too great, Or her indulgence for human weakness too small, For her attempts to form a friendship had alwaysEnded in disappointment.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

I don't even have kids. But at heart, I'm a kid myself.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

I just want to say one thing...Thank you Eddie!

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.