It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

I think serial monogamy says it all.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.

I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.

All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.