His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie, ' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.

Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.

I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a positive image.

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

I'd love to play a femme fatale. And I wouldn't mind working with George Clooney.

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.