“Reading has given me more satisfaction than anything else.”

“My dogs.Bill Blass, after being asked "Who or what is the greatest love of your life?" by Vanity Fair magazine”

“When in doubt, wear red.”

“Forgiveness is more than words ... it is a state of being, and if forgiveness is to be anything more than a superficial offering, then, psychological, emotional, and spiritual ground must be cleared in order that the act of forgiveness may be properly rooted, and, therefore, lasting.”

“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.”

“ Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”

“Beulah has a husband?'I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.”