Personal Quotes

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.”

“That which is most personal, is most interesting.”

“My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.”

“My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.”

“Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.”

“Honey, I forgot to duck”

“I don't have too much time for fiction.”

“I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.”

“I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”

“I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.”

“I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.”

“I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“I have had no true friends, only lovers.”

“I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.”

“I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.”

“There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.”

“When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.”

“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”

“If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.”

“You're in there with me. Personally.”

“I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other.”

“I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.”

“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.”

“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.”