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

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.

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.

I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.You did.Is that forgiveness?I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That’s a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.