I have a lot of obligations.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.

Oh sod me, Sir, not another bloody Paddy. Even a Brummie is better than another Paddy.

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. Its a status that does exist.

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.