I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.

The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

I didn't believe in reincarnation in my past life, and I still don't.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant, stupid, barbaric thing when I was a child and I've never gotten over that feeling. If you're talking about religion it's one thing; I don't hold Jewish religion with any more seriousness than I would any other.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.