I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention.

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.

If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.

I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.

If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.

Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.