When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.