My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

Talkers expand like bread dough.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere