"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."

"You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks. With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks."

"And you say, Oh my God, am I here all alone?"

"Don't the moon look good, mama, shinin' through the trees? Don't the brakeman look good, mama, flaggin' down the double E? Don't the sun look good goin' down over the sea?"

"Well I ride on a mail train baby, can't buy a thrill."

"And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul To the old folks home and the college"

"The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown At Delilah's who sitting worthlessly alone But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter"

"Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison"

"The sun's not yellow, it's chicken."

"The sweet pretty things are in bed now, of course."

"Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal."

"Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made"

"You never turned around to see the frowns, on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did, tricks for you."

"You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don't talk so loud Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging for your next meal"

"Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you. People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you."

"How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?"

"I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you."

"Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with one that tries to hide what he don't know to begin with."

"You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning."

"Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you. Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you. Strike another match, go! Start anew And it's all over now, Baby Blue."

"Your lover who just walked out the door, has taken all his blankets from your floor."

"The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense."

"You must leave, now take what you need, You think will last But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast Yonder stands your orphan with his gun Crying like a fire in the sun."

"Money doesn't talk, it swears"