Bob Dylan

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

I think I am basically a happy person.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.