Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

He [Donald trump] is not welcome to Mexico. By 130 million people, we don't like him. We don't want him. We reject his visit.