“Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.”

“When I was growing up I noticed something. Every time I wanted to do something and I feared that I will fail, I always ended up failing. In life, whatever you fear always happen to you.”

“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!”

“Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream from me somewhere.”

“The buck stops here.”

“I have no problem with god - it's his fan club that scares me.”

“Life is like a theatre, but the question is not whether you are in the audience or on the stage but rather, are you where you want to be?”