Eilish

“She also asked him his views on marrige and monogamy given the imminent arrival of his second child with Suzanne. "I think marrying is for very very high minded people" he said. "It is a discipline of extreme severity. To really turn your back on all the other possibilities and all the other experiences of love,of passion,of ecstasy,and to determine to find it within one embrace is a high and righteous notion. Marriage today is the monastery,the monastery today is freedom. " he told Marion he had arrived "at a more realistic vision" of himself. There was no "high purpose" in his activities. "I'm just going" he said "so I don't have to stay still”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

“You finish listening to a song of Leonard's and you know he's said everything he had to say, he didn't let the song go till he was done with it.”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

“Dearest Shell,
If you let me I'd always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters. . .I'm afraid to live anywhere but in expectation.”
― Leonard Cohen

“He wrote how he "needed to be by himself, so he could miss her, to get some perspective”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen