Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

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

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.