As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Never complain. Never explain.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.