My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

The fog comes on little cat feet.