It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.