Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

"How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt."

"Ah, grief makes us precise!"

"Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore"

"I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world."

"It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over."