I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

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

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.