we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.

The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

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