"In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others."

“Some things were better lost than found.”

“Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver.”

“I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.”

“But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.”

“I saw 'Paranormal Activity' on Halloween with all my friends. It scared me, but it was so much fun.”

“I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.”

“Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.”

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

“Struggle is the architect of the soul.”