As long as you're working, you stay young.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

Every piece of music is not for everybody.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.