Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

The journey was a worthwhile. We gain new insight into cultural diversity.

I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.

The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.

You cannot starve a man who is feeding on God's promises.

Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.

I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?

If you earn my friendship, you are my family and I'll do anything for you.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

I prefer a woman's way of dealing with things.

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.