Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists

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.

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.

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.

One day you're going to look back and wonder why you wasted so much time worrying about things that never mattered much.

Why are you alive? To discover joy and to share that joy with others.

Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.