You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.