My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

I was born in a blender.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced for thousands of hours.

I remember asking my mom, "Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?" And she would be like, "You just never know."

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Helping raise money for kids - there's nothing better than that.