It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

This wasn't a strange place

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

Don't want to slump over the oars.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!