People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.