I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

The best things in life aren't things.

Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters?

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

I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.