I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year's eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance

Do not be a magician - be magic!

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

I've never thought of myself as a singer anyway. . . I've been free from those considerations because so many people over the years told me I don't have a voice. I kind of bought that. I never thought that much about it to begin with. I knew I didn't have one of the great voices. As my Damon Runyanesque lawyer used to say, "none of you guys can sing. If I want to hear singing, I'll go to the Metropolitan Opera."