I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.