Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

Time they say is a great healer, but in this case, I am not sure that is true.

The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's, " adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

I love music so much; I've always played.

The squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

God will defeat the great infidels.

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless