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“In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.”
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“Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress”
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“The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.”
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“Only with a leaf can I talk of the forest”
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“You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.”
Source : Song: When You Love Someone, 1997
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“Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.”
Source : Remarks in the House, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505, April 26, 1913.
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“I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why a beard? And you know people would actually come to me and say, 'Does your daughter really have a beard?' I'd say, 'No, I made her shave it, but I let her keep the mustache.”
Source : "Jean Carroll, 98, Is Dead; Blended Wit and Beauty" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2010. 
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“When I wake up in the morning, I've got a coffee and I'm in my own home studio just chilling... I make happy music.”
