Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.

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

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.