If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

God knows what it's like to lose a son.

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.