It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)

human eyes know to converse well in many a languages & human smiles know well to conceal many a things !!!

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

I have "come back" [to music scene] so many times, people are just like, Is this another one?... It's kind of like a joke to me now.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.