I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.