"She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction."

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."

"I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful."

"She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all."

"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."

"Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine."

"I didn't come out of a cereal box."

"Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees..."

"Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now"

"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands"

"There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die."

"A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet."

"I been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here."

"You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin"

"There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin"

"Let me forget about today until tomorrow"

"When You Cease To Exist, Then Who Will You Blame?"

"Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you"

"Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes"

"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."

"Don't follow leaders."

"But if the arrow is straight And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick. So I'll make my stand And remain as I am And bid farewell and not give a damn."

"The longer you live, the better you get."

"Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark."

"New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice."

"Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game."

"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief..."

"...in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking..."

"Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine."

"Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored"

"Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth"

"Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!"

"She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique..."

"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king."

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

"You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free"

"Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards"

"I wish that for just one time you could I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes... Then you'd know what a drag it is to see you."

"I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

"Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?"

"I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself."

"The sun's not yellow, its chicken!"

"The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome."

"One of the first things I ever did was 'Critical Condition.' That was before 'Full House.' It was a Richard Pryor movie. I didn't have a giant part, but I was in it throughout. I loved the heck out of it."

"Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian."

"The whole thing for me is that I did 'Full House' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos,' and I look like a dentist, and I'm a dad. Being known as a dirty comedian turned into this weird thing. It's people's image of me."

"There's just something about the audiences in Detroit that I've always felt connected to. Detroit is different."

"I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten."

"Now I've literally become neighborhood watch. I call 911 on people. I'm the old man driving 25-miles-per-hour down Sunset."

"I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do."