“Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.”

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.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

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.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

I like everything to be washable, myself included.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.

We’re coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar’s extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.

Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.