Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

There is no ONE right way, no ONE sure-fire path to success, and it is usually the path itself that should be most cherished.