There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

Most designers want to show apparel that makes the wearer look as long and lean as possible. And most people who buy clothes want to look as long and lean as possible.

We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.