As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public."

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

"The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. . . . It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists."

"If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard."

"And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway,
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way."