People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn’t know her.

I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

Success is the most valuable commodity.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.'

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

I became a set designer for opera.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.