I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

I know what I've been through in my career, things no-one else knows.

Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in as much trouble with fracking as we are with coal. They both need to be stopped.

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.