I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

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