Lee Radziwill Quotes

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.

I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.

I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.

I guess I always have been a collector.

My mom is a pack rat.

My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.

My most prized possession is my pillow. I can't travel or sleep without it. And it's, like, this really thin down pillow that really doesn't do anything, but it's weird: if I don't have it, I'm constantly thinking about not having it.

I like to have things around me that I love. However, I'm not a hoarder and get rid of everything I don't need.

I'm a pack rat, like most people.

I've always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects.

I am quite a hoarder, so it is important to let go of some stuff.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

Falling in love is like owning a dog.

I'll kill for you, give up everything i own for you...but i won't give you up.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers are. The love which is attached to the ego is a conspiracy and a trick to possess the other. It is a conspiracy - that is why nobody suffocates so many people as those who talk of love. This situation is created because of the 'love' which comes from the ego - there can never be any relation between love and the ego.

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"