I had to have a complete liver transplant.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.

I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn't put them to work.

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

There aren't many shy writers left.

You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

With Peter O'Toole, you just had nothing but fun.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

The Wonderful pistachios campaign is a great example - I don't involve myself with a project I don't feel passionate about. I could talk your ear off about internal statistics for WWE and what we have planned for the future. Why do I know that stuff? Because I like to do all that stuff.

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There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.

I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done then the child does not become a burden he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges: the old ones, grub.

Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.