It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing.

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

The best way to make dream come true is to wake up.

You either know fashion or you don't.

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

You can’t really worry too much…about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

Humanity is mediocre. The majority of women are neither superior nor inferior to the majority ofmen. They are all equal. They all merit the same scorn.

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

Life is all about adjustments and love is, to be sensitive to the needs of the other than your own needs.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

All entities move and nothing remains still.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.