You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
Bob DylanStrange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
Bob DylanI see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.
Bob DylanHold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.
Bob Dylan[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.
Bob Dylan