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.

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.

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.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

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

Don’t be deceived by the spirit of complacency and think you have achieved enough. Try to become better than you’ve been.

It is better to believe than doubt.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

A great passion has no partner.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.