With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension of woman.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

The holy war is warfare.

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

I can contribute, be valuable and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.