I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).

I never wanted to regret the kisses I missed.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Don't give me timing, give me time

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?