I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.