Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

Detta är en sann historia- men ändå inte helt sanningsenlig.I verkligheten var allt mycket värre...

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help?

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.