You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .