“I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the street, meets other people… that shadow land between self and reality.”

“A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.”

“The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.”

“Theatre is almost the last place in the world of culture where living people meet living people.”

“Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”

“Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.”

“I wander lonely streets
behind where the old Thames does flow
And in every face I meet
reminds me of what I have run for”

“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

“Where more is meant than meets the ear.”