“Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.”

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I’m wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it’s nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.

When in doubt, wear red.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one’s own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person’s skin.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.