My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

I always sings too long and too loud.

If you're white, you're alright. If you're brown, stick around. but if you're black, oh baby. Get back, Get back, Get back.

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

Hope was other people, no matter what the philosophers said. And this was a time that needed hope.

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can'tgrab onto.

Be charming.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

I love doing collaborations - it's always good to do something that's out the box.

Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.