I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

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