Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

I'm a little superstitious.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.