Well, I’ve been waiting, I was sure we’d meet between the trains we’re waiting for I think it’s time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter.
I’m not a very nostalgic person. I don’t really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
Ah, grief makes us precise!
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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.