Bob Dylan on Time

"I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned slowly into autumn."

"Take your clothes, put 'em in a sack. You goin' down the road, baby, and you can't come back. Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry po' me any more."

"With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow."

"Time is a jetplane — it moves too fast. Oh but what a shame that all we've shared can't last..."

"Politician's got on his jogging shoes, he must be running for office, got no time to lose"

"Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time..."

"Drownin' in the poison, got not future got no past."

"Time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies."

"She could take the dark out the nighttime and paint the daytime black."

"Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you. People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you."

"The future for me is already a thing of the past."

"I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time. It doesn't even matter to me."

"I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time."

"Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace."

"I could hold you for a million years"

"Like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years. Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?" So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer."