It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.