When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

When I tell you "forever", I mean it.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.

The world treats beautiful people like they're good at something, which makes it so that they almost never get good at something.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom.

Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.

My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.