Quotes from Tom Waits

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?

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

i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...

When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

And they all pretend they're Orphans And their memory's like a train You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

it seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine...ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off...

There ain't no devil there's just god when he's drunk

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick.

using parking meters as walking sticks.

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

You must have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the color of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade bed

I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

I've never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I've got all three, and it's never helped me.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

You got to tell me brave captain, why are the wicked so strong, how do the angels get to sleep, when the devil leaves the porchlight on.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

hell is boiling over. And heaven is full. We're chained to the world. And we all gotta pull. And we're all gonna be ...just dirt in the ground".

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.