The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

I just admire my mother very much.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.