The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

Too much information about nothing.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.