While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.