"Throw my ticket out the window, Throw my suitcase out there too, Throw my troubles out the door, I don't need them anymore, 'Cause tonight I'll be staying here with you."

"His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen."

"Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine."

"Lay, lady, lay. Lay across my big, brass bed."

"Nothing is revealed"

"I put my fingers against the glass, and bowed my head and cried"

"All along the watchtower, princes kept the view While all the women came and went, barefoot servants too Outside in the distance, a wild cat did growl Two riders were approaching. The wind began to howl."

""There must be some way out of here," said the Joker to the Thief"

"With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace, And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace, And your basement clothes and your hollow face, Who among them can think he could outguess you?"

"Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, Should I leave them by your gate, Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?"

"And now here I stand, looking at your yellow railroad, in the ruins of your balcony"

"But to live outside the law, you must be honest."

"You say you love me and you're thinking of me, but you know you might be wrong."

"She takes just like a woman, yes she does She makes love just like a woman, yes she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl."

"I asked the doctor if I could see you It's bad for your health, he said Well, I disobeyed his orders, I came to see you but I found him there instead Well, I don't mind him cheating on me but I sure wish he'd take that off his head Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat"

"Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Well, you must tell me, baby How your head feels under somethin' like that Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat"

"She is good to me And there's nothing she doesn't see She knows where I'd like to be But it doesn't matter"

"But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel."

"Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him."

"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face."

"Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles"

"He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all"

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

"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet?"

"You see, you're just like me. I hope you're satisfied."

"Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want."

"The one was Texas medicine, the other was just a railroad gin. And, like a fool, I mixed them; and it strangled up my mind."

"And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice."

"Oh Mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again?"

"Somebody got lucky, but it was an accident."

"But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned!"

"Dylan: Well, no, it is to begin with. But then I always hear other instruments, how they should sound. The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That's my particular sound. I haven't been able to succeed in getting it all the time. Mostly, I've been driving at a combination of guitar, harmonica and organ, but now I find myself going into territory that has more percussion in it and [pause] rhythms of the soul."

"Ron Rosenbaum: When you hear your songs in your mind, it's not just you strumming alone, you mean?"

"And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers..."

"The Titanic sails at dawn"

"Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do"

"Yes, I received your letter yesterday (About the time the door knob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can't read too good Don't send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row"

"They're selling postcards of the hanging"

"I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff."

"The cops don't need you, and, man, they expect the same."

"Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a son. Abe says, Man, you must be puttin' me on. God say, No. Abe say, What? God say, You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see me comin' you better run. Well Abe says, Where do you want this killin' done? God says, Out on Highway 61."

"They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization."

"You put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground."

"Here's your throat back, thanks for the loan."

"And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?"

"You go watch the geek, who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak, and says, how does it feel to be such a freak?, and you say, impossible as he hands you a bone."