"“I have read in the newspapers that I have been [blackmailed], and I am frank to say that there must be some truth in…"

"“I have all my life made white people my friends and never had much to do with my own race.”"

"Harold was tops as a cavalier; every day he sent me more gardenias than most people go to the grave with."

"I know myself well enough to be positive that I couldn't have lived through a whole year, or even a whole week, witho…"

"Your heart often knows things before your mind does, and I think from this time on, psychologically speaking, I was a…"

"The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothe…"

"I was just recalling the pet saying of an old madam named Vicki Shaw." "Oh? And what was that?" "Too many cooks," I s…"

"What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liqu…"

"Grace is God’s radical, unconditional love for all humanity and all creation."

"In 1995 I moved on to painting a boat, and then a home built sailing raft my partner at the time and I built out of s…"