I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

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!

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

Lighting is everything in a color.

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

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.