After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.