[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

I didn't like mundane life.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.

I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.

I think I will die laughing.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

For the curious, I write

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

We've been living under outdated immigration rules from decades ago. They're decades and decades old.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

Living in fear or judgement is not how I will spend my life. Realizing that this life is all I get and your life is all you get, brings a need to make the best of all possible.

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.