Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.

We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.