Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.

Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he has written plenty that falters on the page but soars in song.

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among prizes, it is surely his [Bob Dylan] due.

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

People like B.B. King told me I was a 'star' and told me I was 'the future of blues' - and Buddy Guy, too, ... They told me, 'You're it, son; go on out there.

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

We actually had a Kansa band softball team.