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.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets… and full skirts. And then we do another look that’s ’50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I’m not in costume, I dress really normal.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Freedom is relative.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

It’s a funny old world.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.