Luxury Is The Income Tax Of Vanity.

A Book Has To Be Easy To Open And You Don't Have To Be A Bodybuilder To Lift It. I Like Books I Can Read In Bed. Those Big Tombstones Would Kill Me.

My Favorite Kitchen Was The Japanese And The Italian Kitchen.

Beauty—or The Desire To Be Beautiful—is In Itself A Dangerous Motivation. Someone (i Forgot Who) Once Said, ‘does The Person Who Loves Someone For Their Beauty Really Love Them?’ So Don’t Focus On Beauty ... A Respectable Appearance Is Sufficient To Make People More Interested In Your Soul. It Is The Sum Of Our Experiences That Makes Us Interesting, And Having Been Through A Time In Your Life In Which You Were In A Bad Place (or What You Perceived As A Bad Place) Physically, Can Be Useful. It Can Even Be Necessary.

Elegance Has Nothing To Do With Fashion.

In A Meat-eating World, Wearing Leather For Shoes And Clothes And Even Handbags, The Discussion Of Fur Is Childish.