You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.