Paul Simon Quotes

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

I have to change to stay the same.

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

If you change, it's because you want to. I will never change, and I never could change because the people around me are the same people who have always been there. My friends are the same, and that means you can never forget where you came from.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.