I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle

We do not kill good people, for the world is better with them in it.

I don't really enjoy it, Mom.""And you've always felt this way?""I don't know. I guess I want a break.

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Never give up. If you don’t give up, you will get there in the end.

Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?

Love is a contradiction.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.