quote of the day

I took a different way to work this morning, and -- posted artfully and creatively on a telephone poll -- was the following quote. I Googled it, and it's Mr. Tom Waits that brings you this one:

"This is just memory mixed with desire."

I believe the exact quote is "...time is just memory mixed with desire", but I can swear the "telephone artist" changed it up a bit, which leaves things more ambiguous, up to one's own interpretation. (But I was driving, after all, and I could have flipped "Time" and flopped "This" in its place in my own mind.)

In any case, I see "This" as Life, capital L, and it's one of the most true, raw things I've ever seen and heard.