Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.