The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.