I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

When failure knocks on your door, ignore it.When defeat bangs on your door, lock it.When success knocks on your door, answer it.When greatness knocks on your door, seize it.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

I never want to have that on my shoulders - I never want to be number one on the call sheet. That's a life that I don't want. I mean, I'm not ducking the responsibility.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

Nobody wants to have things blurted at them.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.