Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour.

Every time he saw her he realised the reason why they always said humans are made of stardust.

You've got David Petraeus and whatever the pushback might be against [Donald Trump].

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.

Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.

This poet is a griot in search of a village.

People lose their way when they lose their Why

Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.