What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons.

Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.

Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.