“When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.”

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.

Think pink, but don’t wear it.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.

My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

Normal people think I’m insane.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.

The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.

My abortion was so long ago I didn’t think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn’t realized I didn’t forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I’d be in this position. It’s a dream and I don’t even know if I dreamed this big.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

If i’d wanted you dead five minutes ago, you’d have died five minutes ago.