There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy.

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.