Desperate.

A time of solitude will always produce some fruits.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.

Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.

Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

I'm staunch. If you are lucky enough to be able to play for your country, it seems to make you even prouder of your roots and origins, and to me that's Wellington.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

Like having your own licence to print money.

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.