I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine]

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

Secret to time is beyond our reason.

Lips. There was something strangely, delicately indelicate about the word, like a kiss itself.

I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

It's not a bad thing to be loved.

Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way.