This is what I like, " said Jesse. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this, ’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. ‘Our stomachs are graveyards.

Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.'No, ' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.

Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

Donald Trump's a great fighter.

Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.