It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

I did go to school - my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out ... and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.