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.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

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.

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.

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

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.