Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all the songs about love and all the movies and all the books, there doesn't seem to be any way that we can prepare the human heart for this experience.
Leonard CohenA sip of wine, a cigarette, And then itโs time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. Iโm wanted at the traffic-jam. Theyโre saving me a seat.
Leonard Cohen