Sean Wilentz Quotes

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.