It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.

Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.

...nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

There must be consistency in direction.