I think women rule the world, and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do. - Bob Dylan

I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying

"I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound. Someone's always yellin', 'Turn him down'." — "Highlands" from "Time Out of Mind" (1997)