Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.

Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.

If I talk about her like she’s a beingIt’s because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

I'm not going to waste my time trying 'break' America, you know what I mean? Too many people have died trying to break America. America doesn't break unless it wants to.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.