"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."

"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."

"I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself."

"My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen."

"It is a timeless truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."