Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.

You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

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!