I want her sinful arms wrapped around me, bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame.

It’s voyeuristic the way you searchfor answers in these cries for help, and how you see Death’s fingersbut always think they’re paintbrushes.

I felt happier yesterday. I do not feel happy today – I feelabandoned and godless and brokenin a church built for the damnedwith artificial light through stained glassand warped wooden doors.

When I wake from my nightmaresI’m more afraid of the breath in my lungs than whatever might be chasing me.

You have constellationsgrowing under your skin.starlight in the blood spilledwhen they stole your feathers

In my mind he is a demon and a godand I blame him, I blame him, I blame himfor the world I created on my ownas much as the one he built around me.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

Trust grows by trusting.

With positive mindset you can overcome any madness.

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.