If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

Two princes. Fine men indeed. But neither is the prince of my heart.

Little children are all writers.

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.