Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

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