Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

If you follow your heart, you know true happiness.

Finally liberty has come!

I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.

Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet.

Successful politicians are people who know how to make us think well of them without our realizing that that’s what they’re doing

Even as a kid- do all kids think about this? I hope they don’t, I hope my kids don’t think about this- I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

I shall gain glory or die.

To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.