I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

I don’t drink anymore - just the same amount.

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

The jazz musician's function is to feel.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.