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.

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.

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.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.