I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

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

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

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.

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

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

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

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

Life is like a diamond. More you trim it, more it becomes beautiful...

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.

There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.