"Few artists have ever battled so manfully with management or so unheitatingly sassed the press. He was afraid of nobody because his heart was pure."

"I wanted that diamond because it is incomparably lovely. And it should be on the loveliest woman in the world."

"As for the woman styling herself Mother Teresa, I can attest that until I wrote my little pamphlet, she had been the recipient, the beneficiary, of a twenty-five year Niagra of one-hundred percent fav…"

"Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening Stalin, the Anglo-American millionaires and all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national moveme…"

"You know I love you, right?” The urge to kiss her goodbye was so strong that I almost broke our rules.She smiled, beautiful and golden in the late morning light. “Not as much as I love you.”“Oh, man. …"