My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

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

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.

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.

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.

I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

Great God! Thank you for the joy in my heart.

Try me, amd you will start LOVING!

I'm lucky I'm a comedian, 'cause otherwise my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.