A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

If I can achieve for Celtic what I have achieved for Hibs, then I feel I will have done well for them.

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.