there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

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

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.

You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule.

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.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.