Paul Simon

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think all the world's a sunny day,Oh yeah!I've got a Nikon camera, I'd love to take a photograph,so mama don't take...my Kodachrome away...

I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.I touch no one and no one touches me.I am a rock,I am an island.

We note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we've lost.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

Some people never say the words __ love you_, for like a child they__e longing to be told.

I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said "DoloresI live in fearMy love for you's so overpoweringI'm afraid that I will disappear

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?