"At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special."

"I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach."

"I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it."

"We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food."

"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."

"The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike."

"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."

"I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father."