I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.
Lee Radziwill
I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.
There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.
I've always wanted to be an actress. At school and in college, I did some things. But then I married, and then I had children, and then there were the political years.
Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.
I'm obviously all for women's lib.
Decorating has always been my hobby.
If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
I hate touch football.
I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.
When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.
Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.
I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
My father, naturally, spoiled me when I was allowed to see him - flying to New York from Washington, alone, in those terrifying planes. He'd take me to Danny Kaye movies and rent a dog for me to walk in the park on Sunday - a different dog every Sunday - and then to have butterscotch sundaes with almonds at Schrafft's.
As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.
I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.
I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.
I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal.
I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.
When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.
My childhood taught me nothing... zero.
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.
When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'
Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.
There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.
No, I never did hats. I didn't - never felt they were so becoming to me.
My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.
Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
There is something to be said for being older - and memories.
It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.
Onassis told me. He begged me to come to the wedding.
I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.
When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.
I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'
I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.
I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.
I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.
My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.
I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.
When I look back on my life, it seems nearly everything of interest happened in little more than one decade - dramas, tragedies, major events, pleasures, my close friendships with artists and political figures, the lovely places where I lived in England and New York, the trips to Europe, visits at the White House.
New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.
I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.
