I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones

being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.

I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.

To the pure all things are pure!

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.