I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

Cancer is not for sissies.

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us.

It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.

There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.

My home is not a place

Don't work in a restaurant if you can't control your hunger for food.

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

You think I'm in love, that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent.

Dawn is born at midnight.

You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.