My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.