In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?

You are who you choose to be.

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it

The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.

Every good deed is glory to God.

Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, complete.

Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.

India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

I like to go into the studio and start work on a project when it's time. I don't like to do it too early or too late.

I don't own anything designer.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.