I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.

Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.

I only want to walk a little longer in the cold blessing of the rain, and lift my face to it.

Love me like a wrong turn on a bad roadlate at night.

I don’t know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it’s more a force to preserve freedom.

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.

Nothing can succeed in stopping a man that has mastered the infinite power of the subconscious mind from reaching the territory of greatness.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.