I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.