I thank God for Elvis.
US magazine (24 August 1987); on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, as reported in Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986–1990 and Beyond, Mind out of Time (2009)

“A woman like you should be at home. That's where you belong, taking care of somebody nice who don't know how to do you wrong.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You

“I like to do just like the rest,
I like my sugar sweet, but guarding fumes and making haste,
it ain't my cup of meat.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

“I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.”

Bob Dylan

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 115

“It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), I Shall Be Free No. 10

“The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues

“You will start out standing, proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), She Belongs to Me

“Bob Dylan: The media is all-pervasive. What can a writer think of to write that you don't see every day in a newspaper or on television?
Interviewer: …Do you think that TV and the media have killed poetry and literature?
Bob Dylan: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. … What's a writer to do if every idea is exposed in the media before he can get to it or let it evolve? What's a writer gonna write about? … We're living in a science-fiction world. We're living in a world that Disney has conquered. Disney's science fiction. Theme parks, trendy streets, it's all science fiction. So I would say, if a writer has got something to say, he'll have to do it in that–
Interviewer: Outside of the real world?
Bob Dylan: There is a real world. Science fiction has become the real world. Whether we realize it or not, it has.”

Bob Dylan

The Rome Press Conference (23 July 2001)

“The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face.”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna

“You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ear to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you”

Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)