If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, 'How's the little lady today!' you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, 'I speak as a citizen of the world' without others saying, 'God, what a nut.'

The fifties were when people started coming down on 'juvenile delinquents,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals'--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't…

One is always afraid of upsetting their conventionalities.