I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.