"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

"A resilient spirit knows that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

"fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey."

"I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses."

"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."

"Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care."