No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa’s Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods.

I can’t feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.

Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God.

I want what you want. Whenever you want it.

It took a little time to get where I wanted. It took a little time to get free. It took a little time to be honest. It took a little time to be me.

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing.

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.