"You'd like to think you're pretty much an original, everything about yourself distinctive and individual. But it is surprising to realize to what extent you echo your family, and how, from childhood, you have been shaped and molded..."
- George Cukor

"I know that [as a trans person] I won't have children, and I want to help disadvantaged children in my own way."

- Vladimir Luxuria

"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."
- Christian Dior

"I could [never] make up my mind about life...As a matter of fact--I was in a strange turmoil about world affairs, my own writing, suffrage, sex, and my inner spiritual development."
- Mercedes de Acosta

"If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down." 

- James St. James

"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about." - Herb Ritts

"Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad."
- Truman Capote

"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
- Oscar Wilde