If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

They always say some women like to fix people. I don't like to fix people, but you like a challenge.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.