It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the poeple in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfilment.

We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

All my songs are where I am.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.