"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one."

"I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick."

"There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream."

"What they had me doing first was autographing copies of Come and Get It at the Bon Marche, where I had been fired a c…"

"[Hollywood]: It's a nuthouse. The other day a man phoned and wanted me to endorse a certain brand of cigarettes. I ha…"

"I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over."

"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you…"

"Religion was too vague. God was different. He was something real, something I could feel. But there were only certain…"

"I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the di…"

"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became les…"