“I’ve met people who didn’t even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.”

The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.

I’m not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don’t get into it alone!

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

I’m more offended when someone’s killed on television than when there’s something that’s sensuous or sexual. So what?

Commercials capture your attention, that’s all.

I couldn’t have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it’s not as if every gay person is a great creator.

Levi’s can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I’m like nails. I will kill.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

It seems there’s always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.