I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something.

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.