I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

Murderers don't even know that murder happens.

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread, As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.