I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.

We're all born bald, baby.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

I essentially write for myself.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.