Gloria Vanderbilt

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

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'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.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.