One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.