What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

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.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.