I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Strawberry fields forever

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.