It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

I have learned of this great force and will never test the boundless energy of what is karma.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

Money will respond to you just like people do.

When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and talent of all your people - men and women.

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.