The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
