This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.