“You see a lot up there, but don't be scared.Who needs action when you got words?”

“Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone.
They paved paradise,
And put up a parking lot.”

“I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.”

“You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.”

“When you're called up you don't need many personal belongings — not when you love either.”

“Yeah, don't you take a break?'
'I don't have time for breaks.'
'That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.”

“A lot of people complaining that there is no work. I say, "Why you say that for?" When nothin' you got is US-made — they don't make nothin' here no more.”

“When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.”

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”

“Evil is something that, when you see it, when you know it, it's intimate. It's almost sensual. That is why people who have been tortured know it by instinct. They don't need to be told what it is, and they may have a very hard time putting it into words. … That's the nature of the phenomenon. It's hard to put into words.”