After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving ’cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
If you want a lover I’ll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I’ll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I’m your man.
It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you’re not and that’s what you always reach for in a song.
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I’ve practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.
We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That’s about all you can do.
I don’t even hate books anymore.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her.
Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.