If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.