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. Rod McKuen Read Quote
Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. Rod McKuen Read Quote
We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. Rod McKuen Read Quote
I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man’s communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation. Rod McKuen Read Quote
You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality. Rod McKuen Read Quote
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. Rod McKuen Read Quote
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them. Rod McKuen Read Quote
