Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

While making "Possessed", I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I found it impossible to sleep at night, so I'd lie in bed contemplating the future. I fear it with all my heart and soul even as I fear the dark.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Choose your clothes for your way of life.

You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.

If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?