"I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed."

"I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers."

"I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home."

"I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it."

"My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives."

"Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger."

"Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word."

"Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock."

"Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime."

"If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path."

"My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages."

"My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white."

"I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed."

"I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own."

"I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines."

"I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts."

"It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens."

"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."

"I started as a teenager going up on commercials."

"Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight."

"Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover."

"I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did."

"I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover."

"I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing."

"Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour."

"I'm very involved in the writing on every level."

"Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels."

"I've lived three lifetimes in my short time."

"Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that."

"I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore."

"I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate."

"People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood."

"And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy."

"If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way."

"If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path."

"I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home."

"Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow."

"Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep."

"I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope."

"A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice."

"Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.'"

"A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage."

"When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered."

"I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison."

"I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of."

"I make my home in Tulsa."

"Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret."

"Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media."

"I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic."

"I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side."