The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can't change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.

One of my favorite quotes is:"... If I strike you it ain't going to be in your fancy.

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.

Further up and further in!

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

He thinks I look alike!

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.