I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.