Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

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.

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.

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 Am Female. Empowered, powerful, and greatness!

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.

Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

There are no accidents.

First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream.And finally, dream.