
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”
[Picks up the glass of soda]..."Pepsi."
Hot & Fluffy (2007)
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”
“People ask me, "Why do you drink diet soda?" So I can eat regular cake!”
Hot & Fluffy (2007)
“I needed another soda. I’d only had six since breakfast.”
Source: Abandon
Sally Kempton, Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience (2011), p. 227
On considering his wife's suggestion that he write his autobiography, Prologue, p. xiii
A Tale of Two Continents (1997)
Context: I made a discovery, perhaps known to others but new to me: I need not put myself center stage but can rather place myself at the side, like a Greek chorus. As the curtain rises, I can walk to the center and can speak as follows: I wish to tell you of happenings in the twentieth century, as I witnessed them and reflected upon them. You will see me return to center stage, but only occasionally. Once that imagery had gotten hold of me, I went back to Ida and said yes, I shall try.
"Drown Soda"
Song lyrics, B-sides and compilations
Bridge over Troubled Water
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
Context: When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.