I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Don’t give me that Christian forgiveness bullshit, Dukach. I’m a vindictive Jew!” he’d bellow.

This is a love story. It’s about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

I'll fail.""At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.

You have done well so far, my magnificent creature. Soon you will be with me.

The worst thing about falling to pieces is that humans can do it so quietly.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Hate is more lasting than dislike.

Failure is not an option on this one.

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it.