Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.