“That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.”

“My childhood love affair didn’t die, it just vanished. Women had stopped wearing hats.”

“I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”

“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”

“It’s all possible and I’m living proof.”