"Until I was about 12 or 13, it was just, “Oh sure, okay, fine.” Then when I was about 14, my father asked, “Are you s…"

"Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like."

"Walter Slezak says he's tired of arguing with his kids about borrowing the car. "The next time I want it," he says, "…"

"You have to work five or six years in the theatre—in hit shows—to make people sick and tired of you, but this you can…"

""Overwrite — put down everything that comes to your mind," I was told. "Be explicit, elaborate. Judicious pruning wil…"

"Biographies usually begin with the smack on the bottom and the first lusty cry of the subject. I deplore this literar…"

"In that wonderful musical show Knickerbocker Holiday Maxwell Anderson defined the outstanding characteristics of an A…"

"Papa told her about a Lohengrin performance. It was just before his first entrance. He was ready to step into the boa…"

"After America had entered the war in December 1941 all postal service with Germany and Austria was stopped. But Papa …"

"My biggest dream in life is the one about catching a tram in my underwear and then Helen Mirren gets on and blows up …"