People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.