Bob Dylan

The radio makes hideous sounds.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

There is nothing so stable as change.

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.

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

If she doesn’t acknowledge what happened, then how can we trust that she is going to be different in the future?

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.

My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen. So I’m always game for a good joke, and I’m not so formal in this role. There’s very little that we can’t do that people wouldn’t appreciate.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.