I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.