It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

It’s hard raising parents.

The gods help those who help themselves.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.