Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.