The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
Tom WaitsWe are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Tom WaitsGeorge Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
Tom WaitsMostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Tom Waits