And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.

A friend is never an imposition.

You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.

I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life -- in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.