Alain Wertheimer

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.