I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.

maintainence is elegance.

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

Too much good taste can be boring

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.