Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.