My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

This boy needs a dog.What makes you say that?He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

You can walk and still talk... but still there is a possibility you to die.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.