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.

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

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

I was taught that pain is bad.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have