Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.

Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.