“Peace will comeWith tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fireBut will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..”

“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. ”

“Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'For the loser nowWill be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'.”

“It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.”

“They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.”

“with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ...”

“Some times I think this whole worldIs one big prison yeardSome of us are prisonersThe rest of us are guards”