Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

Do you smoke, Herr Cabal?""Only to be antisocial, " replied Cabal, making no move.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.