Rainer Maria Rilke

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.