the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive

Many men but one Master.

It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.