The soul of a poet is like a mirror that reflects the beauty of the world.

Every site has its own genius loci, our job is to listen to it.

I was born to win, but in order to win I gotta be willing to lose.

Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of understanding it and making it understandable to others.

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.