Most people call me Mercy. I like it

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.

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

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

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