Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.' |
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. |
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name. |
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. |
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. |
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. |
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. |
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. |
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. |
I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. |
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea |
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea |
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. |
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great. |
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great. |