…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.

What was I before the war? It’s hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.

I’m going to see you now Papa… you better run...

Hate is a self-destructive illness.

Life is always speaking to us at every moment.

What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

California: The west coast of Iowa.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.