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" And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart. "

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" I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. "

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

" Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. "

" I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. "

" 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. "

" Music is the emotional life of most people. "

" I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook for my old Zen master for many years. So there were two or three dishes that he liked, you know. Teriyaki salmon, a few things. "

" 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. "

" I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. "

" My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. "

" 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. "

" As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Torah values are the ones that inform my life. "

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" One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen. "

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

" I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving. "

" I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. "

" 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. "

" There were times that I thought I was good looking. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. "

" 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. "