There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'

Tell the truth and make it rhyme

Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?

I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.