Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon-but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx-the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

More from Bob Dylan

• Chaos is a friend of mine.
• Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
• Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people. On stage, Nov. 26, 1979, in Tempe, Arizona.
• I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
• I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
• In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.