Rupert Holmes

“So I waited with high hopes and she walked in the place. I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face. It was my own lovely lady and she said, 'Oh, it's you.'”

“He'll know that you're no stranger, you'll be his latest danger.”

“I've always believed that a good story is a good story, no matter what form it takes.”

“If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain. If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape. I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me, and escape.”

“I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long. Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.”

“Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.”

“I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.”

“The first rule of a mystery is that the author knows the solution.”

“There's a danger in being drawn to something that's not real, in the fantasy of it, and then having that bubble burst. I think that's a very human experience.”

“I think that any song that has a beginning, a middle and an end is a story. And I don't think that a song should be a slogan.”