The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.