The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

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.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace