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“When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.”
Source : "Brought to book". www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001. 
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“Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.”
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“I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.”
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“Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.”
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“I am not a Hemingway aficionado.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.”
Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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“Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.”
