After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.

Music- a country one can inhabit only in music.

Not everyone can see that everything has some beauty.

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.