I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

I don't know a high C from a low C.

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I can't do coffee, but I can do Dr. Pepper.

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can.

I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.