My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.