When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
Leonard CohenChildren show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard CohenCertainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.
Leonard CohenIn Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, โthe winter has not killed us again!
Leonard Cohen