"I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me."

"I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head."

"If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money."

"Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you."

"The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it."

"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."

"If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch."

"I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing."