Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!