I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.