Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

You can't win every week.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.