My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

I began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and played back a tune by ear. My parents were watching and said to each other, 'Maybe we should give him music lessons.'

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.