Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.