I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal.

Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.

Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.

Taste is an emotion.

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.

I hate touch football.

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.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.

Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.