Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.