In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.

Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.