Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.

Advising gives a great illusion of superiority

Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.

I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

I would love for the world to have a dog psychology center everywhere.

A picture is poem without words.

I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.