I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

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

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.