The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.