Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.

Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

To me, only that which makes me wise is worth knowing.