A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

I adore artifice. I always have.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.

When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.