I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.

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.

Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

I learned that real happiness doesn’t come from getting but from giving.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.