Bob Dylan

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

Stand up and walk out of your history.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Listen to the birds and don’t hate nobody.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.

Above all else, I would choose you. When there’s no more grand gestures, no more words to say, when everything around us begins to give way, when the sky grows dim and the colors fade, I will choose you.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.