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

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

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

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.

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

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.