Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Rejoice while you can breathe.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

Having kids doesn't mean they would have taken care o you.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.