There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

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

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite some gains made against it, is becoming even more prominent.

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!