We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.
Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.
I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.
I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them
I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.