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.

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.

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.

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

There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

A difficulty for every solution.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

When the right moment appears, the key is to not let it pass.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.