My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

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

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.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.