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" There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind. "

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" In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. "

" I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. "

" I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang. "

" Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! "

" I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this. "

" I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. "

" Success is survival. "

" All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels. "

" The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. "

" Torah values are the ones that inform my life. "

" My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. "

" And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart. "

" Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. "

" Music is the emotional life of most people. "

" I was born in a suit. "

" And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. "

" The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. "

" Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. "

" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "

" My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca. "

" Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. "

" I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved. "

" I had a very messianic childhood. "

" Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. "

" This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.' "

" I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. "

" I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving. "

" I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. "

" If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. "