If you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.
Leonard CohenSeven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Leonard CohenPrayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard CohenExcept for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water โyou are a fine looking old manโ I said to myself in the mirror โand what is more you have the correct attitude You donโt care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradiseโ Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude
Leonard Cohen