No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.