What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? - Leonard Cohen. View more images...

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work. - Leonard Cohen. View more images...

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. - Leonard Cohen. View more images...

Success is survival. - Leonard Cohen. View more images...