When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.

Since hostile people still call me a former Playboy Bunny, even at 82, I probably shouldn’t have done that in my youth, even to write an exposé. And since a couple of times they’ve also referred to me as a former CIA agent, because I went to two Soviet-era communist youth festivals, I probably shouldn’t have done that, either. Yet if I hadn’t done both, I might have judged other people by such empty symbols, too.

That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.

The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.

I think our kids take our stuff!

When I got hit by a car in my home town.

I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.

Being at our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.

Being untruthful.

My husband, who always seems to have everything in control and is so consistent.