Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.

You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.

That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

I’ve always looked like this—in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?

Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.