The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty
Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer. ’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.
Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?. . . The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.