God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Your own hands falling out to catch youbefore you hit the ground. All the waysyou save yourself even when youdon't want to.Love is the way your body fights tokeep you alive.Day after day after day.

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

You've got to be careful smoking weed. It causes memory loss. And also, it causes memory loss.

Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.