Leonard Cohen // "I think there’s an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it... Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have. But now I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can’t enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it’s always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down... If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable."