If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.

Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.