Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, 'Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?' But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, 'Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?' Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they'll just live in my bubble world.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.