Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

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

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.