Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.
There isn’t a child who hasn’t gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn’t return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.
I don’t know what’s coming next and neither does anyone else. It’s something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don’t want to face it. And there’s denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.
The things that matter most are not things.
I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot’s asleep.
I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.
Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
I have no idea where I’m going but here’s the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?
If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.
I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.
While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country’s problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.
This is what makes me happy: Remembering where I put my house keys...
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn’t know any women.