I don’t have to convince anyone that I love you.

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.