Count your blessings, not your misfortunes, for your blessings will be the light of hope, in the dark of hopelessness.

One day I hope you understand when you reached out your hand, I grasped it, I never let it go.

Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him.

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.