Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.