I'm so involved in melancholy.

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.

You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.

Never underestimate a septuagenarian with time on his hands.

What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.

Hope comes in many forms.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Today let us all ask ourselves whether we are afraid of what God might ask, or of what he does ask.... Do I truly let God into my life? How do I answer him?

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.