When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

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

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

Since I've made it to 87 so far, obviously my two kids and my seven grandchildren haven't been too hard on me. On the other hand, the fact that I have an unlisted phone number and move a lot might have something to do with it.