I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

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.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Love gives strength to the spirit.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

You're talkin' legit here.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.