"In a dream you are never eighty."

"God owns heaven but He craves the earth."

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."

"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer."

"The joy that isn't shared dies young."

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

"Need is not quite belief."

"Death's in the good-bye."

"Even without wars, life is dangerous."