[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

I'd got hobbits on my hands hadn't I?

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.