We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

He looks like a ghost, haunted by a life suddenly torn away, and I don’t know how to comfort him.

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn’t do it, ” Evan declared, sliding under the covers next to me.

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.