I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.