I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Don’t give me that Christian forgiveness bullshit, Dukach. I’m a vindictive Jew!” he’d bellow.

This is a love story. It’s about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation.

Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.