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.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.

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

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

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

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.