Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.

The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.