the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.