To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

You know that you love someone when they are on your mind from the time you awake until the time you fall asleep. That you loved them yesterday as much as you do today and more tomorrow.

You taste like Heaven, but God knows you're built for sin

The time is out of joint.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.