There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

To see what they see, sit where they sit.

Most of our future lies ahead.

Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I don't see why I couldn't change my mask in this wardrobe even twice a day.

Super-cali-fragalistic-expiali-docious, Docious-ali-expi-fragalistic-cali-super. Cancun...catch me in the room, eatin' grouper.

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

The human is the only guilty animal.

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.