The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Tyler shrugs. "It's a big world, Jo. Who am I to say what is and isn't possible?

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love.

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.