While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

To little men, gods send little things.

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

[Writing a joke] there is no team of writers. It's just you in an office, staring at yourself in the mirror.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.