When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?

the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

I definitely need clarity.

Yeah, that's a good point.

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.