What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.