There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.")

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.

You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

If I did get the opportunity to write something cool that people would like, I would jump at the opportunity to make it.

Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love.

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.