I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal