People Say I Don't Write Books, I

I Watch People Get Older And Lose Their Intellectual Acuity; You Lose That Sharpness, That Cleanness, That Brain That You Worked So Hard On And That You Were Gifted With And Lose The Gifts That Were Given.

One Thing Is Certain In Life. Just When Things Are Going Well, Soon Afterward They Are Certain To Go Wrong. It's Just The Way Things Are Meant To Be.

I Was Born Illegitimately And Almost Immediately, As I Understand It, Placed In An Orphanage. So My Very Earliest Memories Were In An Orphanage. It Was The Tag End Of The Great Depression When I Was Born. People Were Desperately Poor.

. . . God Is Too Busy Making The Sun Come Up And Go Down And Watching So The Moon Floats Just Right In The Sky To Be Concerned With Color . . . Only Man Wants Always God Should Be There To Condemn This One And Save That One. Always It Is Man Who Wants To Make Heaven And Hell. God Is Too Busy Training The Bees To Make Honey And Every Morning Opening Up All The New Flowers For Business.

My Job Is Essentially That Of An Entertainer, No Different To That Of A Musician, No Different To That Of An Actor. I Just Happen To Be An Author.