"If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more"

“My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.”

“Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.”

Source : Acceptance speech for the Charles S. Johnson Award at Fisk University, 1966.

“I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.”

“Whom would you like to put throught a table next? The entire cast of New Moon. They're trying to portray vampires, but they look like a bunch of sissy models.”

“Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?”

“In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.”

“There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working”

“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”