Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

I was down in the sewer with some little lover.

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.