I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

For me an adventure is something that I can take an active part in but that I don't have total control over.

The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.