Quotes from Gloria Vanderbilt

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

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 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'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

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

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

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.

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.