George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

You're innocent when you dream.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

using parking meters as walking sticks.