If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.