Bob Dylan

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

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

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

Possessions are always secondary, loved ones are all that matters.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.