...For I do now know that it is cowardly. We do not have the right to think only of poetry on this earth. It is magical, but utterly selfish.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.