“We all like motorcycles to some degree.”

“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

“In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk of situations
Read books, repeat quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
She knows there’s no success like failure
And that failure’s no success at all-Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)”

“She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.”

“songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.”

“We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it”