They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident, ' I whisper. 'So may you all.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!