I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

I was born in a blender.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

When you are made to pay for such insolence, I shall revel in your ruin.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.