The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

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.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.

Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held