At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction

enter the world of things as they are

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

When I played doctor I played to win.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.