When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.

As a father you're guilty until proven innocent. You're a second class citizen in terms of parenting. As a father you have to prove your ability to be a father whilst residence, power and control is left solely with the mother.

The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage or my house when I propose to take a residence so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.