Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

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.'