Bob Dylan

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

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

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

When the romance is gone, if it’s always you left searching for it, maybe it’s time to stop looking, and start searching for someone new, and start a new romantic journey.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.