It's better to look important than sexy.

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.