Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

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.

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.