Tom Waits Quotes

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal Mercedez pulls up into a puddle of blood, and out steps a twenty-five karat blonde transvestite with a two dollar wristwatch.