Paul Simon Quotes

The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’

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

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.

It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

All I’ve got to do today is smile.