If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I’m the one who’s crazy about them.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Miracles cut corners and beat rules.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

The more we dwell on what we don't want, the more we get it.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not.