Donna Karan

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

I always thought I should have been a better mother.

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.