Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.

To make a man happy fill his hands with work.

When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario, ' it's not as bad as it seems.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.

When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.