...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

And now the story begins for the last time.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.

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

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.