What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

Thank God for little miracles, right?

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

We live in a kissy society.

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

I didn't know a damn thing about style.

New York is tough on lonely people.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

The people on Baywatch were about as nice a group of people as I had ever worked with.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

A fathers disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.

I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

I did not work out while I was pregnant. I felt like I was having symptoms of a heart attack every time I worked out, so I enjoyed eating like a third grader and gained 55 pounds!

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

You can't go wrong with love.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero.

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

His eyes are blue and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon nebulae as seen through telescopes the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.

Struggles do not end when countries attempt the transition to democracy.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.