If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

I don’t always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I’d like to maintain.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

The first Chicago was definitely a product of its time, and Chicago the musical is definitely a contemporary look at another time.

I’m crazy, and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?

I’ve met people who didn’t even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

It seems there’s always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.

Some people feel that what we’re doing makes no sense, that it’s just a waste of money. But it’s working.

While researching design, I was inspired globally, from Peru to Turkey to Africa to Japan-from the 5th century through to today.

I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Women’s Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

I think there’s something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend’s T-shirt and underwear.

It’s fun seeing my label on someone’s behind – I like that.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I don’t think about my fame very much.

The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.

Sometimes a contemporary film like Silence of the Lambs is difficult. To make it look real but interesting is always a challenge.

I’m more offended when someone’s killed on television than when there’s something that’s sensuous or sexual. So what?

You don’t only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you’re more worried about the people who love you.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

I won’t allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Levi’s can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

I don’t trust a lot of journalists.

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it’s not as if every gay person is a great creator.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.

I’m neither Democrat nor Republican.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

I’m a sexual person, and that’s reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.

My men’s-underwear print ads are very popular!

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

I guess I don’t have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don’t think I’d like it.

There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they’re not afraid of it.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

I’m not a drug addict. My wild period wasn’t about drugs; it was about sexual freedom.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn’t functional?

I think the set looks great. It’s kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.