The big change is the proximity to death.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

Certainly 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.

I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.