... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

To be, or not to be: what a question!

(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

I don't look like I've been on a week long crack binge with Amy Winehouse.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.