"It’s funny about career choices. I had to fight to test for the Janet Leigh role in Walking My Baby Back Home. Janet couldn’t dance at the time and I could—but she was a bigger name. I also fought to get the role Piper Laurie had in Son of Ali Baba. Luckily, I lost that one. The one I didn’t want to do was Revenge of the Creature. Science-Fiction was considered bottom of the barrel in those days. Of course, that’s the picture I am most remembered for. It’s very ironic!"

"At that time I also had, for a short while, the strength to bear it. But all too soon I lost external sight…"

"How difficult it is to recognize spiritual illness in a person close to you, especially if the habit of yea…"

"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work.…"

"Everytime we got off the plane that day, three times they gave me the yellow roses of Texas. But in Dallas …"

"There is nothing enduring, permanent, either in me or out of me, nothing but everlasting change. I know of …"

"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers tha…"