For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say

If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

When your eyes go, and your legs go, and your fans go; then it's time for you to go too.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body in this location.

I don't deny it," said Frodo, looking at Sam, who was now grinning. "I don't deny it, but I'll never believe you are sleeping again, whether you snore or not. I shall kick you hard to make sure.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.