I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

Amazing life, a joyful journey.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.