In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Time wounds all heals.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

I couldn't make it in a chicken world, sir, so I hit the road in search of something better.

I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.