“I am not in control of how my characters live their lives, only in writing it down.”

“As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face --I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar.”

“In my forty-year career in this country,Inever dealt with people based on their religion or nationality. I have friends of all faiths. I have always held the rule that all of us come from one father,Adam, and one mother,Eve.”

“How am I supposed to take it easy when all around me these creatures are in a perpetual state of ignorance?"...”

“Death is the reward for living”

“People are afraid to die, and even more afraid to live.”

“Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case.”