The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

We must seek to keep a right view of Jesus and to remember He is always after greater love.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

Virtue is not always amiable.

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.