[Thomas Cahill, author of] How the Irish Saved Civilization, ... Tom, the Catholic Church is made up of a bunch of little men running around in black suits. But they understand death. |
A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear. |
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. |
Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me. |
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? |
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris. |
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? |
I totally believe in the war. You've got to fight for what you believe in. You have to finish what you start. |
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. |
It's amazing the little things you can use, like one of my flowers out there [in the backyard]. He would dry a leaf and use it for a model. |
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. |
They're giving them bathrooms, they're giving them roads. |