Paul Simon

“Time it wasAnd what a time it was, it wasA time of innocenceA time of confidencesLong ago it must beI have a photographPreserve your memoriesThey're all that's left you”

“You can't outrun the history train”

“ Have a good time"Yesterday it was my birthday.I hung one more year on the line.I should be depressed.My life's a mess.But I'm having a good time.I've been loving and loving and loving.I'm exhausted from loving so wellI should go to bed.But a voice in my head says,"Ah, what the hell”

“A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest. - Paraphrased from The Boxer”

“She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been”

“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”

“Love is an island in the setting sun”

“And a rock feels no pain;And an island never cries.”

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

“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ”

“I always get very calm with baseball.”

“I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...”

“I have my books and my poetry to protect me.”

“Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.”

“Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.”

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: ‘I love you’ But, like a child, they’re longing to be told”

“A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, "Amen" and "Hallelujah!”

“People say a lie is just a lie, but I say why deny the obvious child.”

“All I've got to do today is smile.”

“Sail on silver girl, sail on by...your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way...see how they shine..oh and if you need a friend. I'm sailing right behind......”

“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all”

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”

“And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.”

“Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.”