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“When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school,
It's a wonder I can think at all,
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none,
I can read the writing on the wall.”

Kodachrome
Song lyrics, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)

“If the answer is infinite light,
Why do we sleep in the dark?”

How Can You Live In The Northeast?
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)

“I’ve built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship;
friendship causes pain.
It’s laughter and it’s loving I disdain.”

I Am a Rock
Song lyrics, Sounds of Silence (1966)

“I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs.”

Pop Chronicles Show 36 - The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance. Part 2 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19795/m1/, interview recorded (20 December 1967) http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s

“And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,
Jesus loves you more than you will know.
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson,
Heaven holds a place for those who pray.
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey.”

Mrs. Robinson
Song lyrics, Bookends (1968)

“Well I'm accustomed to a smooth ride,
Or maybe I'm a dog that's lost its bite,
I don't expect to be treated like a fool, no, no,
I don't expect to sleep long nights,
Some people say a lie is just a lie but I say,
Why deny the obvious child?”

The Obvious Child
Song lyrics, The Rhythm of the Saints (1990)

“"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence.”

The Sound of Silence
Song lyrics, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)

“Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.”

Homeward Bound
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)

“First thing I remember when you came into my life
I said I wanna get that girl, no matter what I do
Well I guess I've been in love before and once or twice have been on the floor
But I've never loved no-one the way that I love you.”

Late in the Evening
Song lyrics, One-Trick Pony (1980)

“I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would”

El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)

“Hang on to your hopes, my friend.
That's an easy thing to say,
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend that you can build them again.”

A Hazy Shade of Winter
Song lyrics, Bookends (1968)

“When the papa found out, he began to shout, and he started the investigation
It's against the law, it was against the law
What the mama saw, it was against the law.”

Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Song lyrics, Paul Simon (1972)

“Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Everybody thinks its true.”

Train In The Distance
Song lyrics, Hearts and Bones (1983)

“Two disappointed believers
Two people playing the game
Negotiations and love songs
Are often mistaken for one and the same.”

Train In The Distance
Song lyrics, Hearts and Bones (1983)

“Someone told me
It's all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it,
I do believe it's true.”

At The Zoo
Song lyrics, Bookends (1968)

“[Rock 'n' roll] really is not given to thinking — and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking… We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.”

Interview in Musician (March 1984), p. 66-68

“Time, time, time, see what's become of me,
While I looked around for my possibilities,
I was so hard to please,
But look around, the leaves are brown,
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.”

A Hazy Shade of Winter
Song lyrics, Bookends (1968)

“There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.”

Interview with Jon Landau for Rolling Stone (1972); republished in The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 (1989) edited by Peter Herbst, p. 211

“If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al.”

You Can Call Me Al
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)

“A winter's day
In a deep and dark
December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.”

I Am a Rock
Song lyrics, Sounds of Silence (1966)