"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."

"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

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

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

"Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it."

"You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out."

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

"Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick."

"Our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses."

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

"... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!"

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

"The Super Bowl is really exciting. The parties are always fun. The whole thing is a big party."

"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."

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