I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.