I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Mom wanted me to fight. To live.I'd just never dreamed that I'd have to do it alone.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.