It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.
I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.
I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.
Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.
[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.
No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.
Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.
Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.