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.

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

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.

Decorating has always been my hobby.

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

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

Even without a kiss, this moment is perfect, and you wouldn't trade it for anything.

The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.