The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.