Quotes from Paul Simon

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

If you'll be my bodyguardI can be your long lost pal,I can call you Bettyand, Betty, when you call meYou can call me Al.

Like a bridge over troubled waterI will lay me down.

The Mississippi Delta was shininglike a National guitar.

Love is an island in the setting sun

Have a good time" Yesterday it was my birthday. I hung one more year on the line. I should be depressed. My life's a mess. But I'm having a good time. I've been loving and loving and loving. I'm exhausted from loving so well I should go to bed. But a voice in my head says, "Ah, what the hell

I always get very calm with baseball.

Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where

You can't outrun the history train

People say a lie is just a lie, but I say why deny the obvious child.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

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

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

But when someone says 'Paul Simon', don't you just inevitably think of a piece of wonder bread just sittin' there on a counter top?

And I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, forsaken In her cold coffee eyes

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon Going to the candidates' debate Laugh about it, shout about it When you've got to choose Every way you look at this you lose

A man gets tied up to the ground, he gives the world its saddest sound.

I've a reason to believe We all will be received In Graceland

Cavett. "What makes you stuck?" Simon. "Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck

Cavett: What makes you stuck? Simon: Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck.