All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he has written plenty that falters on the page but soars in song.

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among prizes, it is surely his [Bob Dylan] due.

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.

Well, everybody has a bodyguard in Brazil.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

I want to have fun. And I want to enjoy what I'm doing.

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.