You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?

The forces of desire that sway man's mind are the forces that will eventually destroy him, while a singular love that roots his heart makes him invincible

I’ve lived what feels like a thousand years to feel your kiss but my little mate, I’m in charge.” He said huskily, an air of authority lacing his words.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The way you write affects what you say.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.