I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.