I am not surprised at all; I am shocked. What took them so long? Right from the 1960s, his writing has touched the hearts and minds of people from across the world. With him winning the Nobel Prize, we can only hope that more people will listen to his music and read his lines and hopefully, change the way they think. The way the world is right now with all the violence and hatred, we really need Dylan as much as we needed him when he was writing his songs. I wish everyone would spend a few minutes of their lives listening to music and reading poetry every day; they will see the beauty of life. Life has so much beauty, why waste it with ugly fighting? We need constant bombardment of Dylan’s writing all over.