Leonard Lauder

I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.