There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.