People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.