For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

I am done underestimating [Donald] Trump and his appeal.

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

When you’re O.C.D., you want the most beautiful animals.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!