Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.