* 'Well, go ahead and call the cops; You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops.'
* 'Wasted and wounded it ain't what the moon did; I got what I paid for now.'
* 'Never could stand that dog.'
* 'It's hard to say grace and to sit in the place; Of someone missing at the table.'
* 'Schiffer broke a bottle on Morgan's head; And I've been stepping on the Devil's tail; Across the stripes of a full moon's head; Through the bars of a Cuban jail.'
* 'Running through the graveyard; We laughed my friends and I; We swore we'd be together; Until the day we died.'
* 'I been a cabby and a stock clerk; And a soda fountain jock jerk; And a manic mechanic on cars.'
* 'I guess you heard about Nash he was killed in a crash; Hell that must have been two or three years ago now; Yea he spun out and he rolled; He hit a telephone pole.'
* 'Now don't be a cry baby; When there's wood in the shed; There's a bird in the chimney; And a stone in my bed.'
* 'I don't know how long it has been but I was born in Brennan's Glenn.'
* 'It's cold back in Chicago but in Los Angeles it's worse'
* 'I can hear him rolling on down the lane / I said Hollywood be thy name'
* 'In a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank.'
* 'I'll start talking from the brim of a thimble full of whiskey on a train through the Bronx that will take you just as far as the empty of a bottle to the highway of a scar.'
* 'And then push came to shove, shove came to biff / Girls like that just lay you out stiff / Maybe I'll go to Cleveland or get me a tattoo or somethin'.'
* 'Portland threw a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze'
* 'Better off in Iowa against your scrambled eggs / than crawling down Cahuenga on a broken pair of legs.'
* 'A Cincinatti jacket and a sad-luck dame hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain.'
* 'Get me to Reno, got to bring it in low.'
* Which of these instruments does Tom Waits NOT play?