Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
To be truly soigne, a man should have 80 suits.
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.
Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you.
When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - bedraggled.
Fear is where the information is.
Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.