If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.

It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life.

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.