To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.