It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

Should I get married? Should I be good?

The idea that I could lose her again… it’s unbearable.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

Believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, you can't accomplish your goals. Know that you can do anything and anything will happen.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.