“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”

“It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.”

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”

“My friends are gone and my hair is grey.I ache in places I used to play.And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on.I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.”

“Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.”

“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”

“Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.”