Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.

...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.

Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity.

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.

Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

Painting is more important than art.