"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"

"While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir"

"It is not he or she or them or it That you belong to."

"Even the President of the United States Sometimes must have to stand naked"

"Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Make everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred"

"Others say, don't hate nothing at all except hatred"

"He not busy being born is busy dying"

"Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying"

"Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides."

"And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden."

"All and all can only fall with a crushing but meaningless blow."

"Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you."

"With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow."

"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free."

"Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time..."

"It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run"

"And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme..."

"The ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming."

"I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too" He said, "You're not Him""

"Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth."

"In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall."

"She knows too much to argue or to judge."

"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."

"I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more."

"Well, I try my best To be just like I am But everybody wants you To be just like them"

"You will start out standing, proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees."

"She could take the dark out the nighttime and paint the daytime black."

"She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back."