Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone.
You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don’t start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
You’re innocent when you dream.
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
It’s the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.