You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

Nutrition makes me puke.

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I'll never forget that feeling.

A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

I was told to have an ice bath once, which I did once, and it was the most horrific experience. In my head it sounded like a great idea, so I filled my bath with ice and water, and it was absolutely horrendous.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.