“I’m back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.”

In Miami they’re building all these hideous monstrosities. It’s just so easy to be an architect, once you’ve got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There’s nothing creative in any of them.

I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is not to fight it. Just to be very quiet, let them get on with it and let them really mess it up.

People lost the capacity of using their brain. It’s all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.

My wrists are crooked and don’t go all the way back. I’ve been practicing and working on them. You can’t do everything good.

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.

You’ll get back to where you came from.

Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

I’ve spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them – and it always brings me back to reality.

When I come back, we’ll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.