What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Routine kills creative thought.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

If you wish to be and remain successful, invest a minimum of five to ten per cent of your income each month and your time each day on your personal growth and development.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

If you are willing to be a self-learner, you will develop yourself.

Honesty is too strong a drink to be unwatered all the time

Poets are Prisoners8-29-2015Poets are prisonersPractitioners, commissioners &conditioners of the spoken word Caged by their own mindsWords are shackles

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.