At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.