"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. "
— Flannery O'Connor

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?"
— Bob Dylan (Lyrics: 1962-2001)

"It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it."
— Leonard Cohen (Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs)

"“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”"
— Bob Dylan (Theme Time Radio Hour)