Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.

I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.

I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.

To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

Contemporary art hates you.