Little islands are all large prisons

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

I remember Tucker Toomey was named so because "T's are funny!" And if Garry Marshall says it's funny, by god, it must be so.

I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.