Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. . . . you walk with political steps on political ground.
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know. '
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
I was very lucky. I was just finishing my PhD at Cambridge in 1981. This opportunity came up because whaling was drawing to an end. There was the prospect of a moratorium, and one of the arguments that was brought up, especially by Japanese whalers, was that, if we didn't have whaling, we would know nothing of whales. All the science depends on having dead animals, they argued, so that's one of the benefits of the whaling industry.
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
In time, you won’t need it to do that. You’ll be able to access that part of yourself anytime you need to. But for now, you’ll require a tool to help you channel all that teenage hormonal ADD that’s bouncing around and through you. ” – Death
Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven.