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.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

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.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

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.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.