When Black Friday comes, — Steely Dan

"Times are hard, Youre afraid to pay the fee. So you find yourself somebody Who can do the job for free. When you need a bit of lovin, Cause your man is out of town, Thats the time you get me runnin And you know Ill be around.Im a fool to do your dirty work Oh yeah. I dont wanna do your dirty work No more. Im a fool to do your dirty work Oh yeah."

"Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again."

"You been tellin me youre a genius Since you were seventeen. In all the time Ive known you, I still dont know what you mean. The weekend at the college Didnt turn out like you planned. The things that pass for knowledge I cant understand.Are you reelin in the years? Stowin away the time? Are you gatherin up the tears? Have you had enough of mine?"

"Now you swear and kick and beg us That youre not a gamblin man. Then you find youre back in Vegas With a handle in your hand. Your black cards can make you money, So you hide them when youre able. In the land of milk and honey You must put them on the table.You go back, Jack do it again, Wheel turnin round and round. You go back, Jack do it again."

"It was still September When your daddy was quite surprised To find you with the working girls In the county jail. I was smoking with the boys upstairs When I heard about the whole affair. I said oh no, William and Mary wont do.Well I did not think the girl Could be so cruel. And Im never going back To my old school."

"Ill learn to work the saxophone. Ill play just what I feel. Drink Scotch whiskey all night long, And die behind the wheel. They got a name for the winners in the world. I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide; Call me Deacon Blues."

"Our concern with environment cannot be reduced to what can be used, to what can be grasped. Environment includes not only the inkstand and the blotting paper, but also the impenetrable stillness in the air, the stars, the clouds, the quiet passing of time, the wonder of my own being. I am an end as well as a means, and so is the world: an end as well as a means. My view of the world and my understanding of the self determine each other. The complete manipulation of the world results in the complete instrumentalization of the self."

"[Relationships] never seem to work out, I mean it gets to the point where I have to be extremely cautious. You have to understand, this stardom thing is still new to me, I dont even consider myself "famous". Its 2008: if you have a blog, a mixtape and two pairs of skinny jeans you, too, can be famous."

"Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi’ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin."

"There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right."

"Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at me—Im a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em."

"Josef Alberss [a former art teacher of Rauschenberg, on Black Mountain College ] rule is to make order. As for me, I consider myself successful when I do something that resembles the lack of order I sense. (around 1949 during Black Mountain College, fh)."