Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease

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

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.

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

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

I am too old to think.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.