The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.