Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.