Gloria Vanderbilt

“I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.”

“The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.”

“I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.”

“The heart of another is a dark forest.”

“I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.”

“When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?”

“You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.”

“The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.”

“I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.”

“All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.”

“I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.”

“I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.”

“In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.”

“I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.”

“I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.”

“In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.”

“If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.”

“I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.”