This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

Those who know you don’t need explanations, those who don’t won't believe you.

A traveler's most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.

The reward for good work is more work.

I don't wear heels every day, but when I'm out, that's how I feel confident.