I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

The right shoe can make everything different.

After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.

Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs -- don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it.

My style is ambiguous and lucid.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting.

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!