My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

You never know how much time you have with someone.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.

When evil rules a time and place, certain good people are called upon to tell the truth to those who don't want to hear it.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

North Carolina's industrial workers have been crushed by Bill Clinton's signing of NAFTA supported by crooked Hillary Clinton.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.