No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.