We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.