Three questions, ” I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke. “One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?

Sometimes, having friends who were like family was a good thing, and sometimes, it was like having an endless supply of very nosy, very irritating siblings.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Love is something that never goes out of style.

People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.

Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.