I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.

I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.

I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

I've developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

I try not to look back on my career.

To obtain something, something of equal value must be given.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

Science advances one funeral at a time.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.