A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there.

The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

I've never really been a fan of violence.