I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

Volvo — they're boxy but they're good.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.

Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

I can hear the music all around me.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.