I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

If I hadn’t been a woman, I’d be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I’d be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I’d be like Ru Paul.

How young can you die of old age?

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Fashion breaks my heart.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla – a rebel.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.