LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

The boarders have changed. My vocals explore different elements and you know it was really important for me to transfer the atmosphere of the songs with my voice.

I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.