The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Silence, nothing is better.

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.