The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.