we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

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.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.