Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

Oh, I don't need sleep. I just went to my hotel room and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks.

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

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

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working with these wonderful women on 'Hot in Cleveland,' and Valerie Bertinelli, and Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves are like, it's like the buddy-ship we had on 'Golden Girls' and 'Mary Tyler Moore.'

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.