If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.

Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.

We, human beings, are strong because we are capable of change .

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.