Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.