But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries.

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.

The words come at my call but who calls whom?

Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

Find the gold in every moment.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.