My days are gone a-wandering.

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

I know everything except myself.

Your integrity is your personal code of honor and has the power to build your reputation or destroy it, establish credibility or crumble it—in one swift move.

As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.