There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?