I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

Mutually assured destruction.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that I won't play.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.