We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.