My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.

I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag.

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."

The more Dad and Mom love each other, the more secure their children will feel.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).