Quotes from Ryan O'Neal

I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.

I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21.

Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.

I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father.

I'm not religious. I'm a fallen Catholic.

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.