You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

God is creativity, not a Creator.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.