Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.

On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

Only night can make us whole again.

Angels are quite ample cause to cry.

By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.

Love of life at times requires death

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along.

I realize now, I was learning how to walk as well. I haven’t mastered the steps, I fall too. But im on my path, my path... and one day that path... will take me to her.

The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.

But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none?

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.

What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again. "Halos," I said with a grin. "For heavenly creatures like us." "That might be a stretch.

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.