A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?""Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

I'm going to live to be twenty-five, ' she said, 'then die.

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the day before.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.