"Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant."

“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”

“What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?”

“You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.”

“Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts”

Source : www.nyfa.edu. April 16, 2018.

“You nodded towards the cup. "Want more?" I shook my head. "What about the car?" "Didn't find it. You were heading back towards me when I found you." "Towards . . . ?" You nodded. "So I reckoned the car had probably got stuck or died somehow, and you were just coming home." "Home?" "Yeah." Your mouth twitched. "Back to me.”

“I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold.”

“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since, as Swift says, it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.”

Source : "A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism". Book by Roger Scruton, 2006.

“When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.”