Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.