'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Dark is the world’s night without you my love,

I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.