Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

Sex has been around for a long time. You may not believe this, but it was around before I was.

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.