If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

It is the curse to search you in every person I meet, the curse with no cure

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.

I'd like to try different genres: comedy, period drama, rom-com, action.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.