"I feel like Elvis. Only alive."

“His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.”

“Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.”

“It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.”

“Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed.”

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“I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.”

“God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.”

Source : "Screen: Angry-Young-Man Fairy Tale; 'Georgy Girl' Arrives at the Fine Arts Lynn Redgrave Stars in Tragicomic Film" by Michael Stern, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 1966.

“Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.”

“Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.”