People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.