One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

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.

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.

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.

The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.