Rod McKuen

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.