The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.

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

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.