The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

Here's my rule about shoes, buy them.

It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

Accessories are everything. To me, they're more important than the clothes.

It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make the system work.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

You can taste a word.

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.