I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

Some people say funny things - but I say things funny.

Her gaze met his, her blue eyes filled with confusion and terror – and love. If Julian hadn’t already been in love with her, that would have done it.

I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.

...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of place. Im not confined to one sound.

I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.