..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

The Philosopher's Stone was called Silence.

Listen to the song of your heart, now follow the melody.

Hate doesn't last. Love does.

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.