I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later. Like all great times, the sixties were about personalities.

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

No one knows how hard one works.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

I think your imagination is your reality

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

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