Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

I was never a topical songwriter.

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.

May you stay Forever Young

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.