What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening-all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
Morality has nothing in common with politics.
I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.
It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot. My mind was strong like a trap and I didn't need any guarantee of validity.
We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.
Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?
And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you.
If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself.
An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.
I think it's the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice.
Experience teaches that silence terrifies the most.
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.
Every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain.
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.
The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!
