A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

To hope is to contradict the future.

I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

All who love are conspirators.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.

You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

We cannot constantly supervise everyone in football ...you cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.