I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.

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

I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.