You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Have enough courage to love.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.