Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. Well who's black and what is a black person? I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her. Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor. I always wanted to be a mom. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column. The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight. You cannot always run at your best. We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected. There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business! There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea. Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music. It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election. You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win. Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.