I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

I'm the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you.

Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.

Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.

It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.

The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.