Bob Dylan

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

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

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Remember who you are.

I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he’s chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.

When the eye is not set on one leaf and you face the tree with nothing in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye.

All generalizations are false, including this one.