"As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it."

"I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod."

"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."

"There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride."

"I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that."

"Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55."

"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."

"I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting."