In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.