“If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.”

“When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.”

“The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.”

“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”

“You could be happy, the minute you try.
Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?”

“Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.”

“When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?”

“The picture is still there and what's more, if you go there — you who never was there — if you go there and stand in the place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there for you, waiting for you. So, Denver, you can't never go there. Never. Because even though it's all over — over and done with — it's going to always be there waiting for you.”

“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.”

“You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.”