Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

There's always someone following your next step.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

The more we complain, the more unhappy we get

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

The shortest distance to leadership is service.