Life is the elimination of what is dead.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens.

Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.