We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

You can maintain power over people$$$ as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything$$$ and that man will no longer be in your power.

Men marry women hoping they'll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others$$$ past and present$$$ and by each crime and every kindness$$$ we birth our future.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

When a captive lion steps out of his cage$$$ he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity$$$ there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage$$$ and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied$$$ for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.

If the world changed$$$ I could not exist$$$ and if I changed$$$ the world could not exist.