The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers.

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.

Don't ask me to pray, instead ask me to act.

This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.

(...) pick up your axe, start at the rootsdon't miss the trunk, never forget:to end life truly and finallystart at the roots or end there.

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration.

Is it all just a psychotic dream? What is life?

I could be the ceaseless mist that fogs your colourless eyes when you're lost in your universes.

A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest.

The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.