Tom Waits Quotes

And someone will head south 'til this whole thing cools off.

Come down off the cross, we can use the wood.

What's he building in there? We have a right to know.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can forget, that history puts a saint in every dream.

I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.

Your veal cutlet gets up off the plate, It walks down to end of the counter and beat the shit out of my cup of coffee. I guess the coffee just wasn't strong enough to defend itself.

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

How do the angels get to sleep / When the Devil leaves his porch light on?

I know a place where a royal flush can never beat a pair, and even Thomas Jefferson is On The Nickel over there.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.

And sometime around 2 AM you end up taking advantage of yourself. Ain't no way around that. Making a scene with a magazine.

If I exorcise my devils, well, my angels may leave too.