It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.

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.

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.

The most important influence is all our lives are love. If we're never taught to love, then showing and accepting love becomes difficult.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.