“In the dime stores and bus stations/ People talk of situations/ Read books, repeat quotations/ Draw conclusions on the wall”

“In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk of situations
Read books, repeat quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
She knows there’s no success like failure
And that failure’s no success at all-Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)”

“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”

“People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. ”

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that.”

“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”

“The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off.”