Decorating has always been my hobby.

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

The power of writing is phenomenal.

You give frequent flyer miles with that guilt trip?

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.