You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule.

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.