If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.
The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time.
How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.
If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.
Maybe next season we can race.
The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.