Bob Dylan

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

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

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

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.

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

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

I think I am basically a happy person.

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I think; therefore I am.