Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

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

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

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