If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.