There is one common philosophy, one thing that you can do no matter who you are or what you look like: You can actually get passionate instead of remaining cool or instead of trying to look like everybody else. You can - you must - immerse yourself passionately in who you are if you want to have style.

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

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

Flirting is conversational chemistry.

I don't want to offend people.

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

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.