I don't think of myself as being tied.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

I love the musicality of words.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.