I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Love is the last light spoken.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Learn the rules before you break them.

The difficulties of people should be our business.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

The cookie maker needs someone to look out for him.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.