"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

"The story is more important to me than the part."

"Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films."

"To me it is the irony of fate,” she said. “The way they come here. Those moths could fly anywhere. Yet they keep hanging around the windows of this house."

"It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night."

"To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."

"I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror."

"I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating."

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

"Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless."

"In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train."

"I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person."

"The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick."

"First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete."

"I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits."

"So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track."

"If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates."

"The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn."

"Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate."

"I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?"

"Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth."

"I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will."