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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

For me, it’s about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something’s going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

I should like to be a horse.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline.

There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn’t have when I was young.

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call ‘the good old days.’

Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.