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Bob Dylan Continues To Release Odd And Unsettling Records, And To Do Odd And Unsettling Things On Stage. So The Term "still" Seems Meaningless To Me. But The Real Answer Is Simple: I Listen To Bob Dylan For Pleasure More Than I Listen To Anyone Else For Pleasure.

If 'mystery Train' Is My Nixon Book And 'lipstick Traces' My Reagan Book, 'invisible Republic' Is My Bill Clinton Book. I Really Liked Clinton. He Made Me Proud To Be Part Of This Country Again. For All Of His Failings, The Way He Put All That He'd Done In Jeopardy, I Supported Him From Beginning To End.

You're Going To React To A Painting In A Way That The Painting Demands You React.

I Had Tremendous Fun Fooling Around With The Way People Talked About Songs, Just The Way That Became Another Way Of Understanding The World.

Farber Had A Huge Effect On Me As A Writer. I Don't Mean I Write Like Him. Farber Is, First Of All, A Great Stylist, A Great Writer. Anyone Can Read Manny Farber's Film Criticism, Whether That Person Is A Novelist, A Poet, Another Critic, A Historian, And Learn A Lot About Writing By Reading Him.