In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.