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" A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. "

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" To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. "

" In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. "

" The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show. "

" At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. "

" I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. "

" We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. "

" I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. "

" I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot. "

" I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved. "

" When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. "

" All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels. "

" 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 can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. "

" We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? "

" I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. "

" There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. "

" Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. "

" And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. "

" I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. "

" The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way. "

" The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. "

" 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. "

" Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long. "

" My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca. "

" I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion. "

" There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind. "

" I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out. "

" The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence. "

" There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I'm writing about some of the things they themselves are going through. But I don't usually have much help to give - there isn't much you can say to someone in the midst of their own crises. "