To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.