Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.