Do you aspire to dance naked, like David, in the streets?

I have no aspirations. My mind doesn’t work that way. I think more like—a dog, a TV set, and a woman by my side when I think of the really wonderful things… in those moments when those things can be appreciated, they all have the same value, the same weight. That’s what brings the peace… all things have the same weight in what we call peace. Those are the really lovely moments.

Leonard Cohen

From My Long-Overdue Love Letter to Leonard Cohen by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring (Huffington Post: July 2, 2012). The quotation is from a June 18, 1988 interview. The photo of Leonard Cohen with Gershwin, Sharon Robinson’s black lab ©Herman Leonard Photography. The photo of Leonard Cohen and Rebecca De Mornay was taken by Gerrit Terstiege (1993). The image of Leonard Cohen getting lost in that hopeless little screen is a screenshot from Adrienne Clarkson’s 1989 documentary.

Note: I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted Jul 6, 2018.