It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .

It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.