I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.

I meddled in things that man must leave alone

I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open.

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.