Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

I'm always reading many books at a time. It might be quite unorthodox, but what I do is, since I'm always surrounded with books, I'll read a page of physics, and then I'll read a chapter of a novel that I really love, and then I'll say, "Oh well, what does that mixture do in my head?" I adore reference books. I love encyclopedias. I also like just going back to original texts, because a lot of these self-help books today.

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.