Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay, You know it's always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure.

In the end, we wear out our worries.

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violetsdandelionsAnd the big bullying daisies through the field wonderfulwith eyes a little sorryAnother comes also picking flowers

Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.

What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, thats the reason I live here.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted.

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.