Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.

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

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.