I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.

Before you go to sleep, do not forget to say thanks for everything good that has happened to you in the last 24 hours.

Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world!

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman Tiptoes into my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper; "Go to sleep, everything is alright"

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

Don't take things for granted.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.