Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

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.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.