Water is God's tranquilizer.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Pink is the navy blue of India.

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!