Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.