I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.

I've never been ambitious.