"I am a river, and I flow."

"I've been a dishwasher, a cook, a busboy, a waiter, a laundress, a delivery boy, a truck driver, a chauffeur, a gardener, a bellhop, a doorman, a houseman, a janitor, a porter, a longshoreman, a seama…"

"Humor is a way of saying something serious without being too serious."

"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."

"I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."