- "I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."
- "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
- "The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
- "A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."
- "In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."
- Leonard Cohen
