"Dyin' is a pain in the ass...." - Quote by Frank Sinatra

“I am a thing of beauty.”

“I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.”

“As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.”

“You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.”

“From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?”

“You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.”

“Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.”

“Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".”

“I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up.”