What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

Too much good taste can be boring

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.

All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.

The personality is a work of art.