Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

I'm determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not.

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.