What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

You must have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the color of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade bed

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money. Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

Heavenly Father has a picture of you on His dresser. He loves you and will help you. Call upon Him.

You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.

Remember who you are and what God expects you to become.

You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic.

You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.

Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out?

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.