Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

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

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

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.