A bitter drug oft brings relief.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.

If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.