Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.

Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

Eric waited all his life for love and, in meeting, Tina thought he had it. What he got wasn't quite what he'd dreamed about.

I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I'm thinking of letting my hair go.

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

A poor man fear for money works against him.

You have to be yourself. You have to go up and you just have to do it.

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.