We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long w…

- Rod Mckuen

If I could do it over, I'd do better.

- Rod Mckuen

Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't …

- Rod Mckuen

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

- Rod Mckuen

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them …

- Rod Mckuen

May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love.…

- Rod Mckuen

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

- Rod Mckuen

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

- Rod Mckuen

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

- Rod Mckuen