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

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.

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.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

He could offer only withness, but nothing else was asked.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

You try to take it game-to-game and keep working.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.

Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.