“I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?”

“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.”

“What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.”

“I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”

“I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.”

“I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.”

“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”

“Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.”

“The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.”

“I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”