Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.

I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I try to keep my private life private.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.