But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.