I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

Whatever happens, never happens by itself.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

Everything changes your life.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Teach by works more than words.

Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.