"You came to me this morning
and you handled me like meat.
You'd have to live alone to know
how good that feels, how sweet.
My mirror twin, my next of kin,
I'd know you in my sleep.
And who but you would take me in
A thousand kisses deep?"
- Leonard Cohen, a draft of the song/poem "A Thousand Kisses Deep"

"She said: What is history?
And he said: History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
He said: History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress"
- Laurie Anderson, The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin)

"I've wined and dined on mulligan stew and never wished for turkey as I hitched and hiked and grifted, too, from Maine to Albuquerque...Social circles spin too fast for me. My Hobohemia is the place to be."
- Rodgers & Hart, "The Lady Is a Tramp"

"Love stands in with the loan sharks when your heart's in pawn."
- Misheard song lyric from Billie Holiday's "Loveless Love"

"A pretty girl is like a violent crime; if you do it wrong you could do time."
Magnetic Fields - A Pretty Girl is Like