From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.