To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.