A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

Failure: the renewable resource.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!