One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

I have no news of my coming or passing away--the whole thing happened quicker than a breath

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.