Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.

I would like to study Judaism. I feel that my own Jewish education was really quite superficial from a certain point of view. Although I think the values were very clear and were presented very clearly, there's - there were aspects of the whole tradition that were not emphasized. And, you know, I've come to those areas myself as I've grown older. But I would like to go deeper.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.