"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity."

"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."

"The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941."

"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?"

"Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity."

"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects."