If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
Leonard CohenSome say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.
Leonard CohenPart 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 Cohen