I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

My friends are my enimies, my magi, my gods, my life...

You don’t have to prove something to feel it, to know it exists.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

I guess a lot of things happen still.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.