A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.