If you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

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

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.