Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

Yeah, about that, ” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that again.” “Or what?” I ask. “Or . . . or . . .” He can’t think of anything good. “Just give me a minute.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.