“I dwell in possibility.”

“Wouldn’t it be terrible if you’d spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do … and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you, you’d say, “Oh my God, I could have got so drunk…

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

“As I got older and things got more fixed and I couldn’t do anything about them and I had health problems – a couple of heart attacks, long hospital stays, this, that, the other – when things get settled like that, you make a deal, or you don’t, and that…

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”