Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

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.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love.

summer is in me—clouds and lakes of shadows, rippling under the trees

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Have you heard that someone's dreams could be another's reality?

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

Don't you know That lovers make the rains, Call forth the sun, Re-route hurricanes, And exorcise earthquakes for fun.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.