New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.