To live outside the law, you must be honest.

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.