Bob Dylan

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

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.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

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.

Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

In order to succeed you must fail so you know what to do better the next time.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.