Jessica Savitch

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.