My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

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

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.