If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

For a quite good time I thought it's impossible for I to be right with an ideology which a group of people disagree with. Later on I was assured that I was wrong about that idea.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk

Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.