"Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?"

"When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams."

"If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable."

"I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair."

"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."

"May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good."

"Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."

"In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper."