“I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written.”
“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.”
“I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.”
“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.”
“I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.”