If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.