I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

The best thing about London is Paris.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.

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