If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.