I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.

The beautiful thing about young love is the truth in our hearts that it will last forever.

Always put people first, for without them, there is no organization

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

I wish that I was where I am.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.