Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.

I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.