We are all materialistic. There are different levels of materialism! Some aspire to a fancy car, others only wish to go to bed at night with a full stomach.

I guess we all have our own realities

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

When something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.