I am just at tragedy right now.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every week.