"The only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on"

"You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist."

"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."

"I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave"

"Money doesn't talk, it swears."

"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?"

"If ever asked to look at yourself, don't."

"You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing."

"There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again."

"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."

"Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong."

"Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning."

"You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it."

"Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued."

"If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it."

"When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano."

"I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar!"

"When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in."

"You've got to be rich to have a swing like that."

"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

"`I adopted the old Navajo Indian trick of screaming and begging.' Wisecracking in the face of adversity."

"I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty."

"I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there."

"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood."

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

"I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom."

"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."