The True Story of My Life

“My life is a lovely fairy tale, so happy and full of incident.”

Growing up in total poverty didn't make him bitter. He saw his early struggles as a kind of magic preparation for his stories.

He spent years feeling like a clumsy outsider in the theater world. Those rejections eventually turned into the empathy he had for the Ugly Duckling.

“A loving God directs all things for the best.”

Faith wasn't just a Sunday thing for him. He truly believed a guiding hand was pulling him out of the mud and toward his dreams.

The way he talks about his father is so heavy. The man died young after the war broke his mind and his body.