Rod McKuen People Quotations

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 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.

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 not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.

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

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.