...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

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.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

I'm not perfect, I won't be. But I'm a human with mistakes and I'm coexisting with my mistakes

Somehow, I think God will forgive her. If not, eh, Hell has better parties anyway.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they were assumed not to exist.