I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

I like to have a martini, Two at the very most.After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host.

You cannot travel to the known

Sometimes rising above is the only way to stop the hate from spreading. It's not what anyone expects, and it does make them stop and think.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. ... Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths.

To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.