I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Baptists are only funny underwater.