Only poetry isn't shit.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

If one is not prepared to fail, there is no way to achieve success inbusiness and life.

I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

The rich are always afraid.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?