You are thirst and thirst is all I know

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.