I had but one love and it is gone and now there is nothing and I tell you, that is the most awful feeling in the world.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Happier'n young'uns bustin' outta school fer summer break!

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift.

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.