The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?