In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.