No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life..

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters….

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds..

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart..

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it..

Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a prett….

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach..

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity..

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town..

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on..

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters..