Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.

Darkness exists to make light truly count.

I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.

We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.

I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration I don't think you can go wrong.

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

It's secret that evangelical Christians are critical players in Republican primaries.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Obama has wreaked a lot of damage on America already, and there will be more. There's gonna be more to come.