Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.