Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's rather devastating. You've never seen such hideous clothes in your entire life. I mean, it's simply appalling. Thank God there are no windows on that floor, because if I were a size 18, I'd throw myself right out the window [after seeing those clothes]. It's insulting what these designers do to these women.

I'm really not a trend promoter because I feel that people push trends on people they shouldn't.

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.

Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.

I guess the most famous person I was so extremely exhilarated by being with - and actually sat next to her at a luncheon at the White House - was Mrs. Obama.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.