Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages.

I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

Pain is not there to hurt you, but it is there to make you more aware and alert.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

There is no mistake in nature.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.