I never drink water... fish f**k in it.

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.

To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.