Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.

Me myself is enough to manage.

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.